Device foe handling cooking pans



(No Model.)

J. W. Ross. D'EVIGE FOR HANDLING GOOKING PANS.

No. 252.143. Patented Ja n. 10, 1882.

UNITEDr STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. ROSS, OF SANTA OLARA, O ALIFORNIA.

`olvlotz FoR HANDLING ooo'KlNG-PANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettere Patent No. 252,143, dated January 1 O, 1882,

i i Application filed May 25, 1881. (No model.)

4useful Improvements in Devices for Handling Cooking-Irans 5 and I do hereby declare that the foliowing is a full, clear, and exact descripi tion ofthe invention, which will enable others i of this specification.

skilled'in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thcreon, which form a part The object of my invention is to provide a convenient device and method for` handling paris used for cooking and baking pnrposes. Various implements have been devised for this purpose, all of which have been objectionable, for the' reason, among others, that such implements, being designed exclusively for` that purpose, are often mislaid and not at hand when needed.

My invention consists in providingsnch panswith a holding device, as hereinafter described and claimed, adapted to receive and hold any ordinary stove-lid lifter so thatthe pansmay be readily handled by such a lifter, which is constantly underthe eye of the cook and always at hand when needed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ofa pan provided with the holdingdevice with an ordinary lid-lifter inserted in the holder. Fig. 2 is a top view of the holding device detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the holding device detached. Fig. et is a sectionalview of the holder, showing in dotted lines the lifter inserted in the holder. Fig. 5 is a sectional view, showingamodified form of the holder attached to a large bread-pan.

l A represents the holding` device, having the inclined part a provided with rivet-holes for attaching the,l holder to a pan, B. This attaching part of the holder may be constructed with any required inclination to the middle part, b, and may be given anyrequiredformA to ada-pt it to the inclination and shape ofrthe siden-of the pan to which the holder may helafttac ed. y

The outer end of the holder is provided lwith an Opening, c, to receive the lifter C, and the sides, d, which serve as.gui,des to the lifter, are tied together at their ends by the connect ing-piece e, forming a bearing for the lifter depressed below the Opening c. The under part of the holder is recessed at f to receive the point of the lifter, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

This holding devicemay be molded orstampv ed from heavy sheet metal,and may be rigidl y fastened to any shcet metal pan of any form or size; or the holder may be east with any'r cast pan, and may be formed on shoot-metal pans of the metal of which the pans are made. That part of the device which receives the lifter is constructed and arranged on the pan so that the lifter may be inserted at the side, rather than at the top, for readily lifting the paninto and out of a hot oven without burning the hand.

I am aware of the patent to G. W. Mason, No. 127,905, June ll, 1872, which shows a wafer-iron with a handleprovided with an opening to receive a stove-lid lifter but that device would not answer the purpose of my invention, because in that the holder, being in the handle, is not adapted to be attached immediately tothe side of a cooking-pan, and the lifter must be inserted at the top or from above, which would not permit the pan to be readily placed in or removed from a hot oven without liability of 'burnin g the hands.

WhatI clairn as new, and desire to secure| by Letters Patent, is-

1. A holding device, A, adapted to be attached immediately on the side of a cooking or baking pan, and constructed with an opening, c, and a bearing, e, depressed below the Opening, arranged to reoeivelaterally and hold any ordinary steve-lid lifter so that the pan may be readily handled by such lifter, substantially as Land for the purposes described.

2. A pan for cooking or baking purposes,

provided immediately on the side with the IOO 

